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Crossing barriers and bridging cultures : the challenges of multilingual translation for the European Union / edited by Arturo Tosi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Translating and interpreting--Europe.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Multilingualism--Political aspects--Europe.
- Multilingualism.
- Languages in contact--Europe.
- Languages in contact.
- European Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (151 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Clevedon, England ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Multilingual Matters, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text presents translators from different linguistic backgrounds discussing multilingual translation in the European Union. All articles stress the political dimension of multilingualism, and the professional role of the translator as communicator, on which much of the credibility of a union "speaking with one voice in many languages" will ultimately depend.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- The Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Translation Service in the European Parliament
- Chapter 2. Multilingualism and the Interpretation of Languages in Contact
- Chapter 3. The Use of Anglicisms in Contemporary French
- Chapter 4. Translation of EU Legal Texts
- Chapter 5. European Affairs: The Writer, the Translator and the Reader
- Chapter 6. The Contribution of Freelance Translators
- Chapter 7. Translation and Computerisation at the EU Parliament
- Chapter 8. Translating Transparency in the EU Commission
- Chapter 9. Helping the Journalist to Translate for the Reader
- Chapter 10. Linguistic Interpenetration or Cultural Contamination?
- Chapter 11. Equivalences or Divergences in Legal Translation?
- Chapter 12. Opaque or User-friendly Language?
- Chapter 13. Round Table on Multilingualism: Barrier or Bridge?
- Chapter 14. Conclusions
- Appendix: The European Community’s Language Charter
- Index of Names
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610828098
- 9781853596706
- 9781280828096
- 1280828099
- 9781853596704
- 1853596701
- OCLC:
- 52856546
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